Entertainment over the weekend will be provided by Dale from Radio Leicester with fun games for all the family including the Mummy Game and Play Your Cards Right. There will also be hoola hooping and keep fit demonstrations, a steel band, country and western singer Timeless, children’s magic and Punch and Judy.

The fire museum will also do a pumping demonstration while The Peter Le Marchant Trust and the Baldwin Trust will do cakes and tea, joining various other local charities hoping to raise some vital funds.

Sunbeam, disabled trip boat, will take people for trips on the water and there’s a water taxi from Pillings Lock marina which will give visitors a tour through the site.

Jo Swift, festival organiser, said: “There’s loads going on, come down and join us to see for yourself and join in the fun – especially at the Loughborough Echo stand!”